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Specification table detailing the required gaps for a relay unit in various operational positions.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 64\3\  scan0225
Date  15th June 1926
  
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BY {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /RD5/ML15.6.26. Cont'd. {John DeLooze - Company Secretary}

RELAY UNIT.

Position.
Gap on upper contact.
Gap between pole core & armature.
Gap on lower contact.
Gap at carbon contacts.

Off.
0
.042+8 -6
.053+10 -5
-.040+10 (Depression)

Carbons Just making.
.018"+5 -3
.025+10
.021+15
0

On.
.030+5 -3
.012+3
0
.027+20

This will enable the job to go ahead and in the meantime we will correct the two parts concerned.

When you have a switch complete on moulded base, will you please inform us that we may be able to try on the sample cover in wood that we have had made.

BY {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /RD.
  
  
From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).


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